Computing Farms

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High energy physics, nuclear physics, space sciences, and many other fields have large challenges in computing. In recent years, PCs have achieved performance comparable to the high-end UNIX workstations, at a small fraction of the price. The authors review the development and broad applications of commodity PCs as the solution to CPU needs, and look forward to the important and exciting future of large scale PC computing.

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High energy physics, nuclear physics, space sciences, and many other fields have large challenges in computing. In recent years, PCs have achieved performance comparable to the high-end UNIX workstations, at a small fraction of the price. The authors review the development and broad applications of commodity PCs as the solution to CPU needs, and look forward to the important and exciting future of large scale PC computing.